Umbra Headquarters

Umbra, the manufacturer and designer of modern style consumer products, wanted an equally artful and resourceful Construction Manager for the construction of their new headquarters. The project was to convert a thirty-year-old industrial building into an innovative and functional space for their offices, design studios, showrooms, assembly and distribution activities. The remarkable exterior cladding is the most striking element of this renovation. The architects’ concept was to clad the existing building with translucent plastic panels reminiscent of the polypropylene that Umbra uses in many of its product designs. The one metre square modular panels were suspended from the building on a metal framework which has given a new form to the building. The incorporation of the unique and durable exterior cladding solution superbly transformed a once non-descript industrial building into a translucent building of significance.